Chapter 2633 Zheng Family Gossip
The Zheng family of Yong'an Marquis Mansion was conferred the title when the Great Zhou Dynasty was founded. The current Marquis, Zheng Qiu's biological father, is the fourth generation.
At that time, the title was conferred for five generations, that is to say, after the son of Marquis Zheng inherited the title, if the Zheng family did not receive another title, then their title would be gone.
Since Zheng Qiu's grandfather, the old Marquis, their family has shown signs of decline. It can be said that they are neither good at literature nor martial arts. The old Marquis has a total of four sons and one daughter, one of whom is a legitimate son and a legitimate daughter, and the other three are illegitimate sons. Zheng Qiu's father, Marquis Zheng, is the eldest son and naturally inherited the title. Zheng Qiu's aunt, who is a mother of the same mother as Marquis Zheng, has married the King of Qi and is now the Princess of Qi. She lives a good life.
The old Marquis has passed away. Now the old lady in the family is still alive, but she does not manage the inner house. Basically, she eats vegetarian food and chants Buddha in the small Buddhist temple. Only when the Princess of Qi returns to her parents' home every year will she come out to gather with her children and grandchildren.
The Yong'an Marquisate has not been divided, which means that the three half-brothers of Zheng Marquis still live in the Marquisate.
The four brothers, like the old Marquis, prefer beauty, so they have many wives and concubines in the back house.
Zheng Marquis has only five children. In addition to Zheng Qiu's three siblings, there is a son and a daughter of his second wife.
However, Zheng Marquis' three half-brothers have a lot of children. Because there is no division, the Yong'an Marquisate is almost full of people.
The gossip that Gu Si wants to tell Gu Xin is the gossip of the third room of the illegitimate children.
Gu Xin is quite interested in this.
Zheng Qiu rarely mentions family matters to Gu Xin. Because of respecting Zheng Qiu's decision, Gu Xin only takes care of Zheng Qiu's brother and younger brother, and has no time to take care of other people in Yong'an Marquisate, so she doesn't know.
But Gu Si now has other sisters, can she not listen to gossip?
The gossip she knows is what she heard from other sisters.
The three illegitimate families of the Yong'an Marquis's Mansion have only one son in each family, and the rest are all girls, totaling more than 20. If Zheng Qiu is included in the ranking, the youngest girl in the Zheng family must be Zheng Ershijiuniang.
Among them, in addition to Zheng Wei, there are four other sisters who are married, and the remaining age is between 13 and 16, there are 15.
Just listening to Gu Si talking about this huge number, Gu Xin was a little surprised. With so many people, why didn't their family split up?
Gu Xin asked her own questions.
Gu Si said: "The parents didn't split up the family. Every time Xiaoqiu's stepmother proposed to split up the family, the people in the third family worked together to make a fuss about it. Xiaoqiu's stepmother manages the backyard. With so many people, their family's income can barely cover the expenses. She is annoyed! Every time she proposed to split up the family, the other three families were unwilling, and the old lady didn't care, so this matter was left alone, right?"
Gu Xin was speechless.
Xiaoqiu's stepmother is not very good at managing the family!
Gu Si continued, "She actually has a bit of low self-esteem. She was promoted from a concubine, and the other three wives looked down on her and sometimes bullied her. But she couldn't do anything! Marquis Zheng wanted to go out for a drink and wanted a concubine to accompany him, and she had a lot of things to worry about! In May, she went to Taizhou with Marquis Zheng, and the inner house of the Zheng family became a bit chaotic. The ones who caused the chaos were Xiaoqiu's three aunts and several cousins. Of course, these things were not spread, otherwise you would have known about it, Third Sister."